The above headline placed on any business newspaper would send shockwaves through the business community. But this is exactly what SME's and sole-traders do when they purchase off the shelf software, whether it be office productivity, graphics packages or web design software.
All this is bad enough, but, to add insult to injury this newly-purchased-with hard-earned-cash software is not even put through its paces; the old software adage '80% of users only use 20% of the features' springs to mind.
Thankfully, the Open Source software community provides great answers. Open Office, for example, provides all the productivity tools Mr. Gates's offering has and more that most end users would be happy with, and getting to grips with it is no great shakes either.
So the next time you're in the market for software give the Open Source option a good coat of looking at; Best of all there's no shopping involved and your wallet stays where it is.
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